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Jaged
2004-12-18, 11:23 PM
Why don't they exist?
FlamingPotato-J
2004-12-18, 11:25 PM
Cause you arent l33t enough
Fragmatic
2004-12-18, 11:32 PM
IBM Microdrive n00b.
Jaged
2004-12-18, 11:36 PM
Those things hold less and cost more then the mini hard drives that they use in iPods and the like. Why haven't they put those in a digital camera?
Rbstr
2004-12-18, 11:42 PM
too slow, to much battery usage, as it has to constantly spinn if it wants to have a decent write time.

EDIT: and the uber costs, if an Ipod wich is basicaly a battery, a mini HD, a case, and a cheap circuit board costs $300. A miniHD probably cots $200-$250 for 20gb, (Assuming the profit margin on an Ipod is acctualy less than $100) plus the optics and the quite expensive circuits that cameras need.
Smaug
2004-12-18, 11:42 PM
your threads suck
Jaged
2004-12-18, 11:44 PM
too slow
They arnt too slow for an mp3 player.

And how does this thread suck? This is something that has been perplexing me for a long time.
Smaug
2004-12-18, 11:46 PM
This is something that has been perplexing me for a long time.

Keyword: me. This thread is pointless rambling. Plus, some cameras do have hard drives in them.
Rbstr
2004-12-18, 11:49 PM
They arnt too slow for an mp3 player.

And how does this thread suck? This is something that has been perplexing me for a long time.
An MP3 just needs to read it can easily do that faster than the bitrate, but a camera has to write and it has to do it reasolable fast, but minHD's don't go so fast. Plus above, and the fact that it is rater big to put into a small-med sized camera
Jaged
2004-12-18, 11:56 PM
Then why not use a little bit of memory as a buffer? Wouldn't need more then 1mb. Just take the pic to the flash memory and transfer it over to the HDD and then whipe the flash for the next pic.
Rbstr
2004-12-19, 02:08 AM
a raw pic from a good cameral is going to be over 1meg easily, and high end people need to take pictures preaty fast
Jaged
2004-12-19, 05:11 PM
Keyword: me. This thread is pointless rambling. Plus, some cameras do have hard drives in them.
I haven't seen any cameras with hard drives in them. And so far you seem to be the only one who thinks this thread is pointless.
NightWalker XI
2004-12-19, 05:26 PM
iPod photo?

3mp camera phones...
Jaged
2004-12-19, 05:28 PM
iPod photo?

3mp camera phones...
iPod photo cant take pics

camera phones use flash memory, not hard drives